Death of an Expert Witness
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 1256
- ISBN-13
- 9780745174730
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 1256 pages the longest book in the Adam Dalgliesh lineup, Death of an Expert Witness (1977) is the sixth novel in P. D. James's series, continuing her practice of setting each case inside a distinct professional institution and using the investigation to expose the tensions within it. It follows The Black Tower.
Key facts about Death of an Expert Witness
Death of an Expert Witness is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 1977. It runs to 1256 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Death of an Expert Witness. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780745174730 to find the main one.
Death of an Expert Witness is book 6 of 14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with Cover Her Face (1962).
Additionally, P. D. James writes Cordelia Gray as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Death Comes to Pemberley is the latest published P. D. James book on file, from 2011.
About P. D. James
P. D. James (1920-2014), full name Phyllis Dorothy James, was a British crime novelist best known for the Adam Dalgliesh series, fourteen novels following a Scotland Yard detective who is also a published poet, and widely credited with elevating the classic English detective novel into more psychologically serious, literary territory. See every P. D. James book in order.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
Death of an Expert Witness is book 6 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows The Black Tower. It is followed by A Taste for Death. See the full Adam Dalgliesh reading order.
Adam Dalgliesh is a Scotland Yard Commander who is also a published, critically respected poet -- a deliberate pairing that lets P. D. James write murder mysteries with the density and moral seriousness of literary fiction. Across fourteen novels spanning nearly half a century, James sets her cases in tightly closed, institutional worlds -- a forensic science lab, a theological college, a private psychiatric clinic, a publishing house, a remote island retreat -- and uses the murder investigation to expose the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780745174730